Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
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    165,69 €

  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
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    57,53 €

  • Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations
    As technology advances, mobile devices have become more affordable and useful to countries around the world. As a result, mobile evolution has become an essential part of economic and social advancement. Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations provides emerging research on the role of mobile devices as an important aspect of social and economic gr...
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    256,06 €

  • Rethinking Securities in an Emergent Technoscientific New World Order
    The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity. The paradox is that openness implies vulnerability and insecurities, particularly where closure would offer shelter. While some actors, including NGOs, preach openness of African societies, Africans clamour for protection, restitution and restoration. Africans stru...
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    58,91 €

  • Migration by Boat
    Lynda Mannik
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, bu...
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    44,36 €

  • Liberation and Technology
    Gussai H. Sheikheldin / Gussai HSheikheldin
    “The most fundamental difference between ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense”; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed, institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of ‘development’ ...
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    43,49 €

  • Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India
    Kenneth Bo Nielsen
    ’Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’s most talked-about new land wars. ...
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    165,67 €

  • No Dancing, No Dancing
    Denis Dragovic
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we ca...
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    21,34 €

  • How Africa Developed Europe
    Nkwazi Mhango
    Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Europe; and thereby became underdeveloped. Addressed academically, the notion of development creates many questions amongst which are: Development in what? Whose development? Development for whom? Who defines development? In this volume,...
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    49,43 €

  • Jostling Between 'Mere Talk' & Blame Game?
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much “mere talk” and “blame game” have played out at the expense of “real action”. The blame game and mere talk on Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment jam have remained printed in bold on the face of the continent, yet Africa’s dire situation warrants ...
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    58,99 €

  • Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction
    As the world becomes digitalized, developing countries are starting to see an increase in technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these areas. Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction is a relevant scholarl...
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    256,01 €

  • SIHA Journal
    SIHA
    Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal ...
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    44,14 €

  • The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make superma...
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    36,15 €

  • Multiple Faces of Khat
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research contained, two studies based on rigorous field research and using qualitative and quantitative data. The research reports, the socio-eco...
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    49,96 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve...
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    59,02 €

  • Open Data in Developing Economies
    Andrew Young / Stefaan G. Verhulst / Stefaan GVerhulst
    Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to econ...
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    61,29 €

  • Knowledge for Justice
    Henri-Count Evans / Hilde Ibsen / Tor Halvorsen
    With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, ...
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    43,43 €

  • Corruption in Africa
    Jimanze EgoAlowes
    The underlying assumption of this work is that of all the epidemics afflicting Nigerian, and nay African people, ignorance is the most prevalent and deadliest. The book is split in two sections: The first is an inquiry into the nature and causes of corruption in nations and into corruption, while the second builds on the findings of the first and offers related essays and discu...
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    43,19 €

  • CONTEXT
    This is a book that is timely for the current set of challenges facing companies which find their beginnings in the African environment. The authors have taken great pains to bring to light business frameworks that have been largely part of high-performance companies for quite some time, but are largely absent as part of management philosophy and discussions in Africa. There i...
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    46,90 €

  • Rendering South Africa Undesirable
    Caroline Skinner / Jonathan Crush / Manal Stulgaitis
    To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa’s informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis. The first concerns the changing refugee policies and the erosion of the progressive approach that characterized the immediate post-apartheid period. The second concerns the informal sect...
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    36,57 €

  • Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal Sector
    Cameron McCordic / Godfrey Tawodzera / Jonathan Crush
    This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities. First, the report takes issue with the perception that South Africans are inexperienced and unmotivated participants in the informal economy. Many have years of experience an...
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    35,52 €

  • Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Juliana Ngwira / Liam Riley
    Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi’s capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the di...
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    36,57 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2017 Barometer
    The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is the only sub-regional instrument in the world that brings together global and continental commitments to gender equality in one instrument used to enhance accountability. The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance is a network of country and regional NGOs that campaigned for the Protocol, its updating, implementation and trackin...
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    93,02 €

  • Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
    Eve E. Buckley / Eve EBuckley
    Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued ...
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    41,31 €

  • Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
    Eve E. Buckley / Eve EBuckley
    Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued ...
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    126,83 €

  • A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma
    Randall Fegley
    This book examines the complicated events, conditions, and narratives that have shaped Rwanda’s identity. Drawing on numerous sources and fieldwork, it discusses this east central African nation’s deeply seated cleavages, atrocious recent past, and the internal and external myths that have directed its history and national life. ...
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    58,73 €

  • Africa’s Dependency Syndrome
    Nkwazi Mhango
    There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency.  Africa needs to embark on paradigm shift; and tweak and turn things around. Africa has what it take to do so quickly, especiall...
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    39,57 €

  • Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions
    The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors. As the global population grows in developing nations, it has become essential to examine the effects of urbanization. Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the role of urban growth on the soci...
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    271,29 €

  • The African Conundrum
    The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardisation, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is rarely examined in a systematic manner that takes into account the geopolitical ...
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    59,34 €

  • Flows and Practices
    For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water m...
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    59,14 €


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